It’s early days for iPad apps, as developers are still learning how to make best use of the larger screen and greater processing power provided by the iPhone’s new big brother. The early emphasis is very much on practical tasks such as file transfer and viewing, as well as the inevitable tweeting and social networking apps. …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/

No need for an iPlayer app

Ain't that typical....

Typical - we've been monitoring the iPlayer situation for weeks and then this happens.

You see, when the iPad was first launched in the US the iPlayer did work - it simply treated the iPad as an iPhone. However, about three weeks ago the BBC disabled support for the iPad - which is why we suggested using Sphere as a workaround.

We knew that the BBC was working on the iPlayer Big Screen site but what we'd heard from the BBC led us to believe that it wouldn't be ready for the iPad's UK launch......

Apparently from another planet

I believe this clearly shows that iPad users are from another planet. I mean who uses suites like "iWork" or "Open/Microsoft Office"? They do nothing more than a typewriter.

Who wants to trust a service like "Dropbox" when you can do the same with any other computer using rsync?

I believe this is the fundamental "flaw" of the iPad/iPhone. It's aimed at people who do not need a computer. The big problem is, that many people believe this demographic is worth chasing. That's why you have products like Android which happily copy most of the iPhone's flaws.